Monday Morning Commute - tpbpd

Today is the last day of Spring. Enjoy.

• Maryland Governor O'Mally rode a bike on the Cross Island Trail to promote bicycling for fitness and tourism. "Bike Maryland Executive Director Carol Silldorff says the best places to bike are the best places to live."
• With the start of summer, a summer bike commuting challenge is starting as well. 
• WABA's free bike repair clinic in Ward 7 seems to have been a success.
• Edmonston is preparing to repair some of the levees that protect the town from flooding. Many of these levees have sections of the Anacostia Tributary Trails on them (I bike on them for my commute) and so I hope there won't be any lengthy trail closures associated with this. Maybe some of the problem spots can even be fixed. In 2007 the Army Corps on Engineers forced them to remove some trees along the levees.
• Did some math on Capital Bikeshare. Using the number of bikes in service each month, number of trips per month and days per month, here's how ridership has increased on a trips per bike per day basis.
  • January - 1.58 tpbpd
  • February - 2.17
  • March - 2.44
  • April - 3.68
  • May - 4.66

Comments

[darren]

I know trips per bike is the more interesting and accessible stat, but trips per dock per day (tpdpd?) is a more meaningful metric, as it partially accounts for how well Alta is balancing the number of circulating bikes with the number of open docks.

[Michael H.]

It's only the last day of spring if you define it astronomically. Meterological summer begins at the start of June. As for me, I prefer any method that starts summer sooner.

[Anon]

WMATA budget for next year in the WaPo:

Summary: Roughly $2.5B expenses (capital + operating). Revenue from fares is only $664M from rail, $142M from bus, and $6M from Metroaccess (which costs $116M to run!), for a total of $812M. The rest of the revenue (i.e., $1.9B, the vast majority) is from subsidies (taxes).

If someone will post the same numbers for CaBi, I think we'll be quite happy with its fiscal status.

[Anon]

link for above data:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/commuting/metro-plans-only-minor-service-changes/2011/06/14/AGdzVmYH_story.html

[Early Man]

I hope I am disabused of the notion that readers of Washcycle are "all hat--no cattle," but as of noon 6/20, only 3 teams are signed up for the Greater DC Summer Slog commuter challenge. Or maybe it is just that readers aren't joiners. Prove me wrong at http://greenlightride.com/competition/view_challenge/163/

[Anon]

I commute every day, but feel no need to bath in my own smugitude on greenlightride.

[Michael H.]

I only sign up for the Greenlight Ride contests when prizes are involved. Otherwise, it's a hassle to remember to log miles on a website every day.

[Mr Share]

I said back in January that if they dont get bpd up to 4 by summer, Id be seriously worried.

Glad they hit that metric.

Onto 6 by next summer! Should be easy to hit with this momentum.